Wireless Sensors and Instruments explains the underlying principles of wireless instruments, which incorporate recent communications technology in instruments and instrumentation systems. This book extensively covers software support at the stand-alone instrument and network levels and includes numerous examples from industrial applications, research, and development. The text focuses on three types of wireless instruments, including wireless sensors owned by manufacturing companies and in-service devices used as wireless instruments. With this new technology emerging in diverse areas of application, this reference provides up-to-date information for industrial and control engineers.